SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG! I'm writing another Lemony Snicket story at the same time! It's 120 pages so far, and once I'm finished I'll post that too!

Chapter Six

All afternoon the children had sat in the Dragon Dungeon, trying to get their work done but finding it very difficult seeing as they were forever feeling Nicholai's eyes on them. He was also working in the dungeon along with Hagrid to finish preparations for their trip to Romania. So really, when evening came, they weren't in the mood to see a play. But, as usual, they all took turns traveling by Floo powder to the Ned H. Rirger theatre. While all of the actors were wizards and witches, still some oblivious Muggles came to the place. This made it against the law to use magic during the performance, but this didn't stop some of the actors from using a bit of magic here and there to touch up their acts. The play was called "Evil Dark Lords in the Dungeon", and it bored the Potter orphans to death. The dialogue was dull, and the play started with someone whistling very loudly, as if they were simply trying to get on the audience's nerves. Most of the play consisted of random scenes where people were talking about an evil dark lord and how he was killing people and to beware.

During the whole play, all Nicholai did was eat cockroach clusters. Harry thought those were the most disgusting candies in the whole wizarding world. They chirped even after you put them in your mouth!

But mostly the children were too worried about what Nicholai's plans were to pay attention to anything else. When the townsfolk were talking about how to get rid of the dark lord, Harry was dreaming about flying away on a broomstick with his siblings. When the dark lord began to laugh evilly and Nicholai joined in because he liked to laugh, Hermione was thinking about books she had read on people getting to Romania even though there wasn't a broomstick prepared for them. And in the ending when the dark lord melted in a puddle of water, Ron was debating himself on whether he should challenge Nicholai to a chess game where the winner gets to go to Romania and the loser has to go away forever.

After the play they traveled home again by Floo powder. The Potter siblings went downstairs without saying goodbye to Hagrid and went in to their separate rooms and into their beds.

Harry tossed and turned in his Quidditch sheets and thought miserably that he had never even gotten a chance to ride a broomstick around Hagrid's lawn before Voldemort had shown up.

Hermione tried unsuccessfully to sleep while staring at the books on her bookshelf and realizing she never got to read them.

Ron wriggled in his bed and looked at the chess set in his room that he had never gotten to play with.

The children all fervently tried to think of what Nicholai was trying to accomplish. Obviously he wanted their fortune, but how was he planning on getting it? What was that about 'crimes being harder to trace' and what had he meant by 'accidents happen all the time'? It was all very puzzling.

And just as fervently as the Potters wished to solve their problem, I wish I could change their situation. I want to wave my magic wand and make everything happy and sparkly with flowers and stars, but I can't. The best advice I can give you is to click the X and stop reading this depressing fanfic. You can pretend that they solved their problem and that the Potters put Nicholai in jail, went to Romania with Hagrid and are currently basking in the sun and drinking lemonade. You can even pretend that the Potter parents never died and that the siblings were just having a terrible nightmare. And you can imagine Lord Voldemort had a change of heart and decided to go devote his life to making people happy.

But none of these things really happened. What happened was that somebody knocked loudly, three times on Harry's door. It was so loud that Hermione and Ron heard it in their separate rooms.

"What do you want?" Harry called.

The door opened and there stood Nicholai, his eyes shining more then ever.

"Why, good morning." He said cheerfully. "Where are the other brats?" He turned and yelled, "ORPHANS!"

Hermione and Ron appeared soon after in the doorway wearing their night clothes. Hermione's hair was rumbled and Ron was looking anxious.

"It's time to leave for Romania." Nicholai said brightly. "And there are just enough broomsticks for three stupid orphans and myself to go, so let's make haste!"

"We told you, you aren't going." Hermione snapped. She obviously wasn't as happy as a calm when she was going on zero hours of sleep.

"It is your Hagrid who isn't going." Nicholai smiled.

"Don't be ridiculious!" Ron cried. "Hagrid would never miss this expedition! He was raving about it constantly!"

"Go ask him." Nicholai's eyes shone as if he were telling a joke. "Be my guest, orphans. Go ask your precious uncle. He's in the Dragon Dungeon as we speak."

"We will ask him." Harry said haughtily. "There's no way you're coming to Romania." He stubbornly stuck his nose in the air and stomped out of the room. Hermione and Ron followed.

"That git." Ron snarled. "Who does he think he is?"

"Voldemort." Hermione murmured. The children were silent. They knew that Voldemort knew exactly what he was doing when he told them he was going to Romania.

The hall was strangely quiet and their footsteps echoed as the walked down the stairs.

They walked up to the huge wooden doors of the dungeon and Hermione called softly, "Hagrid? Uncle Hagrid?" There was no answer.

They opened the door and for the first time they noticed it creaked loudly. The Potters walked past various dragons in their cages, most of who were sleeping.

They kept walking, all the way to the back where the library was. They passed the tables with enchanted broomsticks that Harry had made and the spellbooks that Ron had left open. They remembered Hagrid's promise: "I promise yeh that if yeh learn the facts, yeh won' get hurt here in the Dragon Dungeon." But you and I know this promise was chock full of dramatic irony, and the Potters were about to learn this as well. When they reached the bookshelves, the three siblings saw a large, shadowy mass huddled in the far corner. Hermione took out her wand and whispered, "Lumos."

The dark shape was Uncle Rubeus Hagrid. His mouth was slightly open, as if he was very surprised, but his eyes were wide open and gleaming. His face wasn't rosy and his nose wasn't red. Instead, it was deadly pale and it contrasted horribly with his large beard and mustache. On his left cheek were two small holes, right next to each other. The sort of mark made by snake fangs.

"Hagrid?" Harry whispered. Hermione stifled a cry. Hagrid didn't move. As he had promised, the children had not gotten hurt in the Dragon Dungeon, but Hagrid had gotten very hurt.

REVIEWER NOTES

Elvengirl9- I'm in Spanish One too. It's really, really fun. I used to take German and French. German was really boring because we had a really weird teacher who just told stories about his childhood and never taught us any actual German. Then I took French which was really hard to pronounce and I didn't like my teacher. I learned how to say 'Where is the cat?' But that's about it. I'm also learning Chinese from my friends at school because I have four Chinese friends. That's a really hard language!

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Star Wars movie is coming out! Revenge of the Sith! Really creative name, don't you think? Not! But I'm excited! We watched the last three movies as a family and now I want to see Anakin as a kid again. I also like Obi-Wan Kenobi. He's a cool character. Aren't you glad I'm finally updating? I decided I've waited long enough. Time to kill Hagrid off already! Can you come over next week since it's SPRING BREAK! A WHOLE WEEK OF NO SCHOOOL

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